Hard drive set to Read-only

[wolfenstein87]

So I was playing around with my fedora box yesterday and when I was making some changes to sshd_config it kept coming up saying the file was read only. I checked and made sure I was logged in as root and then saw that my hard drive was set to read only. Whenever I tried to set it to read and write but kept erroring saying the file system permissions couldn't be changed. Is there any way that I can change this or at least a work around?

Thanks

[aleph]

What is in your /etc/fstab file?

[wolfenstein87]

[root@repository1 ~]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/md0 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

[markkuk]

If the kernel detects a file system error, it sets the file system to read-only state to prevent any further damage. Have you rebooted the machine since the problem started?

[wolfenstein87]

Yea, I figured the system was buggy so I rebooted it. Now that you mention it I did see some I/O errors when it was shutting down. If that is the case then I should look into replacing the drive.